1. PW LABOR IN THE USSR 2. PORTS OF SEVASTOPOL AND BALAKLAVA 3. KALININ ARMAMENT PLANT IN VORONEZH

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• Publication Date: July 8, 1953
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY USSR (Crimean, Stalingrad, and
Voronezh Oblasts)
SUBJECT 1. FW Labor in the USSR
20 Ports of Sevastopol and Balaklava
3. Kalinin Armament Plant in Voronezh
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PW Labor,
1. Between 1945 and 1951 the work of Germany Hungarians Italian, Japanese, and Rumanian
PWs was divided into four categories: building factory work, mining, and forestry.
The Gospromstroy (state industrial construction) office directed the construction of
barracks, administrative quarters, and large factories, of which the last were built
on the sites of factories demolished during World War II. Many German PWs served
as laborers and technicians in jet aircraft factories to the north.
Port of Sevastopol
25X1 2. During the period between May 1945 and May 1948
PW labor repaired three dry docks and constructed seven new factories the port
area. Seventy five percent of the machinery in the factories, which from the outside
-resembled ordinary dwellings, consisted of dismantled German equipment. A smithy in
the.factory area had eight one-to?three-ton pneumatic hammers, 25 meters high, meas-
uring 80 by 40 meters. The adjacent ship repair yard contained three slipways 120
meters long and 40 meters wide. It also had 15-ton bridge cranes, furnaces, many
sheet metal cutters, and pressing machines. There were railroad tracks in the area.
,A three-story tocl factory in the port was equipped with small lathes. All the ma-
chihery in the electric plant, a two-story building 80 by 15 meters, with a basement,
was German. The machines in a woodworking plant, which was two stories high and
contained elevators, were of British manu,facturq;numbered among them were lathes,
transfiaomers9 and a central furnace. The building also had steam, oil, and gas
pipes.
4. A mine net protected Tnkerman Bay, the largest inlet to Sevastopol.l A seaplane base
was located on the north coast of this bay, where there was also provision for mine
storage. Ammunition, torpedo, and food stores were strung along the south bank, off
which was stationed a.submarine tender of Rumanian manufacture. PWs rebuilt approx-
imately twelve large buildings of an old training school located on top of a hill
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overlooking this bray, Each of these buildings had antiaircraft guns on its roof; small-
caliber, long-range guns in swivel turrets on a nearby plateau protected the by.
-5. Sevastopol was the home port for the following shipso the cruisers SEVASTOPOL, MOLOTOV,
and VOROSHILOV9 the training ship VOLGA; from eight to twelve destroyers- a similar num-
2 5X1 bar of smaller craft; and approximately 20 submarines, the SEVASTOPOL
25X1 I I slanted funnels and the MOLOTOV were more modern,2
25X1 `107 eac displaced an estimate , one and possessed mine-laying gear and anti-
aircraft batteries.3 The submarines and small craft were thought to be mostly of German
and Italian origin. The headquarters of the Commander-in-Chief of the Black Sea Fleet,
a vice-admiral, were located in Sevastopol.
PQrt of Bala..ava
25X1 6. The entrance to the bay of Baiakiava (N 4430, E 33-35)
25X1 I Iwas very narrow. The bay could acc to 25 submarine's.
Knere were or e o s in the Dort area.
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PW Labor at Krasnoarr~aeys&
FW labor at Krasnoarmeysk (N 48-31, E 44-34) from September 1948 to May 1949 consisted of
the construction of concentration camps and preliminary work on the Volga-Don Canal, '
involving mainly, the building of rods and two railroad storage yards. The prisoners
labored in temperatures of -30 to -35t.
Industries-at Voronezh
25X18? Voronezh, where the No bpilt a large
25X1 oun ry or he Kalinin Pneumatic Hammer Factory.4 The foundry
was 160 meters long, .me ers wide, and 25 meters high. It consisted of five halls
supported by 178 eighteen-ton columns. Fifteen bridge cranes, the largest of which
weighed 50 tons, operated in this factory. Many driers and ovens were constructed and
25X1 three railroad lines were installed in the factory area. many large
factories ere operative in Voronezh, the largest of which manufactured excavation
machinery. A jet aircraft bass was located near the city.
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S*3"erYgy Road
stead, the largest inle
t to Sevastopol
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eaplane Base o
n its north coast,
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y leads
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2. The SEVASTOPOL is a battleship with one v
ertical funnel.
3. The MOLOTOV and VOROSHILOV reportedly dis
place approximately 89
600 tons apiece.
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hi
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might be the Kalinin
Armament Plant,
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manufactures, asa , ai
industrial tools.
wavation machinery and
miscellaneous
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